Prostitution in London, with a comparative view of that of Paris and New York ... with an account of the nature and treatment of the various diseases, caused by the abuses of the reproductive function / By Michael Ryan.
- Michael Ryan
- Date:
- 1839
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Prostitution in London, with a comparative view of that of Paris and New York ... with an account of the nature and treatment of the various diseases, caused by the abuses of the reproductive function / By Michael Ryan. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![CONTENTS. PART I. CHAPTER I. Observations on the diseases arising from venereal abuses, 1 — Extent of the subject—it embraces not only the various venereal complaints, but diseases in the head, chest, abdomen, and all parts of the body, 2—Exposure of the ignorance and frauds of advertising quacks, 3—Objections of pseudo- moralists, hypocritical and pharasaical persons answered, 4— Remarks on prostitution and immorality in modern times— during the French revolution in 1789—in New South Wales and other penal colonies, in Paris, London, and New York in 1838—showing the almost universal prevalence of vice, crime, and diseases, 8—Commiseration of persons imposed on by ignorant quacks, who ruin their health and plunder them, 9—No specific remedy-- every case requires different treatment, 1J—Irrationality of mankind about the reproduc- tive function, 11—Most men monomaniacal concerning it, 1] —Deluded by quack advertisements, hand-bills, &e. 12— Moral depravation in all ages and nations, 13—Not yet fifty years since,—horrors—violations, murders, drownings, termed republican marriages—national baptisms, bathings, &c. during the French Revolution, 14-15—Horrible barbarities now, 1838, committed in Spain, 15—Immorality of the igno- rant equal in all countries, as fully illustrated by our own convicts, who were vitiated at home, 16. CHAPTER II. Moral depravation in penal colonies—authentic report of the state of immorality in New South Wales, Van Diemen’s](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33028333_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
